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Stepsisters Poems - Poems about Stepsisters

Premium MemberTwisted

...Little Red Riding Hood took a lunch
to her grandma who liked to munch
Riding Hood liked to play like waiter
until Wolf spied her and then ate her.

Little Bo Peep had trouble with sheep
They'd ...
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Categories: stepsisters, adventure, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEmber Girl

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Born orphan, the torture of her stepmother and stepsisters
shaped the fairy tale Cinderella with fire, the ember girl,
who didn’t dream seeing the dormant love bloom,
but seethed within to tak...
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Categories: stepsisters, fire, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberCinderella - Wicked Twist

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Cinderella had fun at the ball
with her Prince charming, handsome and tall.
It got late and she would
run home fast as she could-
but one slipper fell off in a fall.

The Prince found it and ...
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Categories: stepsisters, betrayal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick

The Blood-Stained Glass Heart

...She scrubs the floors with hands that bleed,
her heart, a brittle thing beneath her chest—
a reflection of the shattered glass
she once danced on,
believing love was a crown
meant to fit anyone....
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Categories: stepsisters, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRefurbished Fairy Tales: Cinderella, If the Shoe Fits Part I

...Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, in France, a storyteller fella
Wrote of a girl named Cinderella,
Meant as a fairy tale romance.
Her daddy died when she was young, and she was forced to sh...
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Categories: stepsisters, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium MemberTake Us With You

...Cinderella was not difficult to please.
Tired from her back-to-back chores, she needed no bed.
She could use a bit of straw for a pillow.
Or sleep without anything under her head.

Her lovelines...
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Categories: stepsisters, books,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberFrozen In Glass Shoes

...Time stopped.
Cynthia, frozen in glass shoes.
Time stopped
when she’d not accepted his proposal.

Prince Nicholas bided his time
to think. How could he persuade this lass
to wear his ring?

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Categories: stepsisters, princess,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Conversation With Cinderella

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( Based on the animated musical produced by Walt Disney 
based on the fairytale written by Charles Perrault.)
 
"Hello Cinderella, how are you ?
I am very happy and still in love,
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Categories: stepsisters, cinderella,
Form: Rhyme

At Your Last Breath

...If I had to explain to a child 
What is fear?
I could not 
I would not

But for the adult 
Fear is all too familiar 
Yet so unknown 
Transcendence is skewed

Fear is natural 
Yet it is cor...
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Categories: stepsisters, confusion, death, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCinderella Aint Listening

...It’s almost midnight Cinderella, her Fairy Godmother whispered.
She laughed so hard, the couch fell in two.
I smiled at old crone's mistake. She does not know my cousin well.
She limped out of the...
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Categories: stepsisters, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSoul Slipper

...Elle laissa tomber une de ses pantoufles de verre, que le prince ramassa bien soigneusement. (Perrault’s tale)

SOUL SLIPPER

magnificent her slipper —
slender, arched, flawless,
resplendent of...
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Categories: stepsisters, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNo More Do They Mince

...Cinderella with the Prince
 
 ~ stepsisters wince



Ziket Guidelines:
 1st line < 8 syllables
 2nd line < 5 syllables
 (Rhyme not required)

Thanks to Line Gauthier
  for the introductio...
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Categories: stepsisters, dance, relationship, sister,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIntuitive Considerate

...Intuitive.
I am honest to a fault, overly sensitive, tough as nails and dependable.
I have two stepsisters, a half-brother and half-sister.
I love birds, antiques and old houses.
I feel anticipat...
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Categories: stepsisters, self,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberBox of Chocolates

...BOX OF CHOCOLATES 

My heart aches for those who vanish —
a variety like chocolates, melting
into vanquished existence.

First and farewell - those lucky
who have died, without having
their n...
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Categories: stepsisters, farewell, friendship, heaven, love
Form: Free verse

Taking a Break

...Although I'm young am tired you see
from all the scheduled laborious activities
stepmother decided to step out momentarily
with stepsisters going on a ball shopping spree,

With me home alone to...
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Categories: stepsisters, art, imagination,
Form: Personification

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